Improved method of graining



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JOHNJ. oaLLoW, or CLEVELAND, oHIo.

'Laim Patent No. 104,929, zaad .my 5, 1870.

IMPROVED METHOD O GRAINING.A

4The Schedule refer-tedio in the" I-ietes'n Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom 'it may concern l v Beit known that I, JOHN J. CALLOW, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in the l 'Method of Graining Wood; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description' thereof, which will enable 'those skilledin theart to-make' andluse the same, reference being had to the `acco'mpanyh'xg drawings 'forming part of this specificaou. A V j This invention relates to and consists in'a ncwand' improved method of graiuingthe imitations of woods and marbles by the use of stencil plates made to the desired'patten of the grain of the wood or marble tobeimitated.

-.`:I.will now describe the means which I preferably employ torry out this method. A primary object consists in making the surface or surfaces ofthe stencil plates suticiently rough andirregular by punctur- 'ing or llndenting, or any other way to have the effect of protect-lug the surface of the plates from marring or soiling thesurfaces of the work intended to be grained, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

'Ihe drawings represent a surface view of the stencil-graining tool, constructed according to my inveution.

A is the stencil glaining-toolor plate, and

B, the pattern to be grained therewith.

Gis the punctured or indented surface applied.- thereto, and i D D, the small steel pins, to keep the plate in po-` turning or bending overa smallv portion of the plate' ou the top or heads of the steel pins, as vat D D.

These small punctures or dented points on the surface of tbetools or plates are to protect a portion of the surface intended to be left untouched from being A marred or soiled, while rubbing .the surface of the plate and pattern with a. rubber or cloth to clean out the pattern, which would be otherwise marred and soiled withoutl the irregular or punctured surface.

the reach of all classes.

manner.

It is designed to make various patterns and sizes 'to lfit any place, and to match or correspond with each other to show a "ariety of design, there being at least ten plates to foi-m a full set of graining tools, more or less, to suit the patterns and grain of the wood or marbles required.

h'e successive steps to be 'taken in carrying out.v

my method are as follows: 1 I

VI rub in or coat with an ordinary painters brush,

' "the doors or work intended to be grained with any desired graining color; Then I apply theizools oi'.

plates, A, dat on the surface, and firmly, by means of the pinsD D. I then rubover the entire pattern or tool with a rubber cloth, or'any suitable pad. I then take oi the plate, and with'the ordinary tools', combs, Src., heretofore used by grainers, I complete it to my sat. i'sfaction.

lIn the meantime, while operating with theplate,

the' ndentions or erasures on the surface of the tool orplate protected the entire underneath surface of the work, which is wet-coated, from being injured or soiled while the pattern or design is rubbed clean out to the painted grounds with the cloth or pad.-

By my method, all kinds of diicult gmlning may be executed by unskilled persons with all the facility of practical grainers, and can used ou any size or shape of door or wainscot, which noother machine has been known to do before. g

By the methods heretofore in public use, graining is laborious, tedious, and limited to a few individuals,

thus making it costly and troublesome and not within Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettersl Patent- '.lhe method above described of grainiug wood,

namely, by first painting the color of the wood to be imitated on the door, panel, or other article to be grained second, immediately thereaftercovering the same with a pattern-plate perforated all over at short intervals; thrd,rubbing the sadplate with a rubberclotl1;these several steps being taken in the order specified-and the grained surface then-being finished oli' in the usual Witnesses: JOHN J. CALLOW.

J ons MILLER,

Guo. BESTER. 

